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" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

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" I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be. "

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" I'm a man of peace. "

" I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. "

" I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it. "

" Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking. "

" I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar. "

" Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage. "

" I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.' "

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" The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland. "

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" It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks. "

" Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway. "